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Living Healthy Challenge!

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Heart Health!
Your heart pumps your blood 12,000 miles a day and beats—with the force it would take your hand to squeeze a tennis ball flat—100,000 times a day, 36 million times a year. It can create enough pressure to squirt blood thirty feet, and during an average lifetime, it produces 2.5 gigajoules of power. This is a muscle that…
December Wellbeing Challenge
Maintain Don't Gain Badge Challenge Description: Eat Smart, Move More, Maintain, Don't Gain Holiday Challenge - The only thing that should be stuffed this holiday season is the turkey. Many people gain around 5 pounds during the holidays. This may not seem like a lot, but most do not lose the additional pounds. The…
December Health Blast
Pot Roast, Ice Cream, Glucose, and You Pot roast, ice cream, trees in the bathtub, salt in your coffee. Some things are great in one place but not in another. Too much glucose in the blood is like that. Glucose is essentially sugar; your body turns food into glucose for energy. Glucose is essential, if there was no glucose…
November WellBeing Challenge
The Great American Smokeout November 1- November 30, 2019 Great American Smokeout Badge Challenge Description: The November Great American Smokeout challenge is not just for smokers. Everyone can participate. There will be activities and resources for both smokers and non-smokers to provide education on the risks of…
Smoking...
Cancer, emphysema, heart disease, asthma, stroke, death… blah blah blah, is there anyone who smokes who isn’t aware of the dangers? Are there any risks you haven’t been reminded of time and time again? Will hearing it a million and one times suddenly make the difference? It isn’t like you don’t know the risks of smoking…
Quarterly Incentive Challenge - Take Time Out
Challenge Description: You are encouraged to take time for yourself each day of this challenge to complete simple activities to help you clear your mind and center your thoughts. Taking proactive steps toward controlling daily stress can help you find your mission and your true purpose. Participants are encouraged to log…
September Challenge - Step Up in September!
Challenge Description: Get ready to STEP UP IN SEPTEMBER with your team! Participants will track their number of steps taken for 30 days. Your Goal is to log 8,000 steps per day or 240,000 by the end of the challenge. Please make your step entries through the Tracker by selecting "step" under Fitness or you can use your…
NEW Athletic Trainer at Rolls-Royce!!!
We have a new and second ATC who started with Rolls-Royce! Lauralee Hatleli MEd, ATC. Lauralee will be assisting the Concentra medical team full time with work-related injuries, ergonomic evaluations, health coaching and more! Please reach out her if you have any questions either here on the app or via email at…
Quarterly Incentive Challenge - Watch Your Garden Grow
Watch Your Garden Grow August 1- August 31, 2019 Fruit Challenge Description: The RR wellbeing nutrition challenge is a 4-week competition aimed at increasing your daily servings of fruits and vegetables. A healthy goal is to eat at least 5 servings of fruits and vegetables daily. Track your servings daily and watch your…
The Flu Shot: Take It or Leave It?
The Centers for Disease Control recommends that children between 6 months and 18 years of age get a flu shot every year, preferably as soon as the vaccine is available (usually in September). Kids over 2 years of age can opt for the nasal spray form of the vaccine if they don’t have asthma. Check with your doctor if your…

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September – Cholesterol Awareness
We do all we can to keep gunk, goo, and sludge out of our drains, rain gutters, garbage cans, and cars engines. Hours are spent trying to prevent the build-up and removing what has already creeped in. Many of us seldom give a thought to our arteries. We assume they can take care of themselves. While we are trying to remove…
Beat the Boogieman.
Remember when you used to hide under the covers to avoid the monsters under your bed? You were terrified they would snag you out of your bed so you’d hide to protect yourself. Fortunately, adults have a weapon most children don’t: they can learn how to find the monsters before the monsters find them. We’re talking about…
Information on what to eat after a workout.
Why does what you eat after a workout matter? Before you can really understand why you need to eat certain foods after a workout, you need to understand what said workout does to your body. When you do any sort of strenuous physical activity, you deplete your glycogen — AKA carbohydrates that live in our muscles to give us…
Easy Ways to workout at Home
The link below has some great ways and apps you can use to workout at home! http://theeverygirl.com/workouts-you-can-do-at-home/
Seven Ways to Stick to Proper Portions
When you can, use a measuring cup to serve your food. This is great to do with soups and cereals. It is a sure fire way to know exactly how much food you are serving and eating. Measure out portions before starting to eat. If you buy a large bag of chips or another snack food, separate it into single servings. Do this…
Healthy Fats Article from Green Bean Delivery
Fats for Health! Over the past three decades, fat intake has decreased, however the prevalence of obesity is still rising, and heart disease is still the number one killer of both men and women. Cutting out fats is one the first step many people take when going on a diet. Unfortunately, many dieters don’t understand that…
June is Sun Safety Month!
What’s the largest organ in the human body? Let’s see… the lungs? The brain? The liver? Oh, it’s hard to remember what all those organs are because they’re all so well hidden—safely tucked away where they can’t be damaged except by what we might choose to put inside our bodies. But wait—the largest organ is one we look at…
Diabetes and Mental Health
Follow the link below to learn how diabetes and mental health are connected. http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/conditions/diabetes-and-mental-health
Diabetes- Are you at Risk?
http://www.diabetes.org/are-you-at-risk/
Mental Health tips.

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